JPS60263986A - Cursor display method with scale - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] This bulletin contains application data before electronic filing, so abstract data is not recorded.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Application of the Invention] The present invention relates to a method of displaying a cursor on a display.

[Background of the invention]

Conventional methods of displaying the cursor position on the display screen and the amount of its movement are divided into equal intervals, using a lid, or displaying vertical and horizontal scales at the edges of the display screen. There was a method of displaying the intersection points of straight lines drawn from the scale marks.

However, with the former method, the exact cursor position and amount of movement cannot be identified, and with the latter method, even if the cursor position can be clearly grasped on the scale display, the amount of movement must be calculated by the operator from the scale display. There was a drawback that it had to be done.

[Purpose of the invention]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to eliminate the drawbacks of the prior art by making it easier to identify the amount of swivel movement on a display screen.

I. Summary of the Invention] The present invention generates a vertical scale display and a horizontal scale display at the cursor position on the display screen, and the two crossed school displays also display the input point as a cursor. It's something to do.

[Embodiments of the invention]

Hereinafter, an example in which the present invention is implemented in a Japanese candy word processor will be explained with reference to the drawings.

Figures 1 and 2 show an outline of a Japanese word processor to which the present invention is applied, and l is a central processing bag N (hereinafter referred to as C).
(referred to as PU), 2 is lead on.

4 is the keyboard, 2-1 is the input key consisting of letters and symbols, and 12-2 is the control. An input method consisting of keys,
Contains designated keys that generate the scaled cursor of the present invention. 2-3 is a cursor movement control key located in the control section.

2-4 is the cancel key, which is used to erase the scale-sensitive cursor. 5 is a kanji dictionary 1. 6 is an idiom dictionary, a 7-digit character generation circuit, and a display tube for 8 to 1 display, which displays characters, d1 numbers, figures, etc. input from the keyboard. 9 indicates the data bus.

FIG. 3 is a detailed diagram of a text being edited with a cursor with a sysscale displayed on the display screen according to the present invention;
-1 is a scale display that indicates the digit position of a character, and is marked in units of half-width characters. 3-2 is a scale-sensitive cursor which is a feature of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a detailed view of the present invention when editing a figure, in which 4-1 is a grid that divides the display screen at equal intervals, and 4-2 is a scaled cursor that is a feature of the present invention. Different scales are used for text editing and figure editing for convenience of use, and since figure editing is displayed in millimeters, the vertical scale and horizontal scale are displayed in millimeters and numbers are displayed in centimeters. In text editing, the vertical scale is displayed in units of lines, and the horizontal scale is displayed in units of half-width characters. A cursor with a scale can be generated and deleted as necessary, and when generated, the numerical value on the scale scale is set to zero at the intersection of the vertical and horizontal scales, which is the cursor position.

Figures 5 to 8 are detailed diagrams showing how to move a scaled cursor using an example when editing a figure. Figure 5 shows the state before the scaled cursor is generated, and 5-1 shows the current cursor display. and position, 5-2 indicates a grid that divides the display screen at equal intervals. 3 to the right from the current cursor position
If you want to move the screen 5 cm upward by 15 cm, the current display allows you to move it in units of senna using the grid, but the above movement cannot be done accurately because it is done by visual estimation by the operator.

FIG. 6 is a detailed view of the scale-sensitive cursor of the present invention implemented in FIG. show.

Figure 7 is a detailed view of a scale-dominant cursor that moves 35 centimeters to the right.The scaled cursor is horizontal when the cursor is moved.The horizontal scale display (including the numbers on the scale scale) is fixed and the horizontal scale By moving the vertical scale display on the display, the amount of movement of the cursor can be easily identified from the vertical scale position before movement (zero in the horizontal scale display) and the current vertical scale display position. 7-1 is
Cursor with scale moved 3.5 cm to the right VC, 7
-2 indicates the vertical scale display position before movement. Figure 8 is a detailed view of the scaled cursor that has been moved up 1.5 cm. This time, the vertical scale display is fixed because the cursor is moving vertically, and only the horizontal scale display moves.
The moving wheels can be easily identified on the vertical scale display. 8
-1 is to the right [3.5 cm,
Cursor with scale moved up 1.5 cm, 8-
2 indicates the positions of the vertical scale display and horizontal scale display before movement. According to this embodiment, the amount of movement of the cursor can be easily identified on the scale display, and the time required for identification is extremely short, so that the cursor can be moved quickly and accurately.

FIG. 9 shows the generation of a scaled cursor of the present invention and
This is a flowchart HC showing the movement and collateral method.
Scaled cursor specification key After manual input, the current cursor position data is converted into vector information (information such as scale length and direction) by the CPU, written to memory, and
RT) A scaled cursor is displayed by displaying the Vc light.

Next, determine the movement direction based on the input of the cursor movement control key, and for vertical movement, fix the vertical scale display and move the horizontal scale display, and for horizontal movement, decide to fix the horizontal scale display and move the vertical scale display. and move it.

It also determines whether the next key is to be manually powered, and if the cursor movement key is manually powered, the process returns to determining the cursor movement direction, and if the cancel key is manually powered, the scale moves and the cursor is erased, and the cursor returns to its previous shape. In the case of a cursor specification key with a school, the number on the cursor position determination π return scale display is set to zero around the current cursor position. In case of key personnel other than those mentioned above, editing work will continue.

In addition to the above example, there is also a display method in which the vertical scale and the horizontal scale are fixed at the intersection, and both the vertical scale and the horizontal scale are moved according to instructions from the cursor movement 11dl control key. In this method, the numbers on the scale display do not change and the scale intersection point is always zero, so it is easy to determine the position before movement from the position before movement and the current cursor position (scale intersection point).

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present DI'll, the cursor movement 1 can be easily identified, and identification takes almost no time. Even when accuracy is required, such as when editing graphics, it is easy to meet the demands.

That is, the present invention has the effect of improving operability for the operator and facilitating graphic creation and editing work.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a Japanese word processor implementing the scaled cursor display method of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a plan view of a keyboard type input device, and FIG. 3 is a detailed view of the text editing screen displayed on the display tube. FIG. 4 is a detailed view of the figure editing screen, and FIGS. 5 to 8 show a method of displaying the amount of movement of the scaled cursor on the display tube, taking as an example the time of figure editing. FIG. 9 is a collateral flowchart of a scaled cursor. 4...Keyboard, 2-2...Part of control keys including scaled cursor specification key, 2-3...Cursor movement control key, 2-4...Cancel key, 3-2... Cursor with scale when editing text, 4-2... Cursor with scale when editing figures, 8
...Display display device. Agent patent attorney Akio Takamaki? -・ Dormitory 3 Prisoner Eel 51 yen I Memuro 9th Prisoner

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A scale that generates the cursor position in the vertical and horizontal directions according to a display request when displaying a cursor that displays an input point and displaying the amount of cursor movement on a display device that displays characters, symbols, figures, etc. A method for displaying a cursor with a scale, characterized in that the amount of cursor movement is displayed by the intersection of the scales.